Live Auction 5934The Sunday Sale - The Collection of the Late Christopher Wood
Lot 10

A VICTORIAN WALNUT CHEST

BY CHRISTOPHER PRATT & SONS, BRADFORD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed8 November 2009

Price Realised

GBP 875

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A VICTORIAN WALNUT CHEST
BY CHRISTOPHER PRATT & SONS, BRADFORD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top above an arrangement of two short and three long graduated drawers flanked by carved pilasters on brown porcelain castors, the reverse bearing a paper label for 'Christr Pratt & Sons/Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers/Carpet and Bedding Warehousemen/Bradford' and a further label for 'PAUL REEVES/FURNITURE AND ARTEFACTS/1860-1960, the locks stamped '2 LEVER' and 'H'
46½ in. (118 cm.) high; 44¼ in. (112 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (55 cm.) deep

with Paul Reeves, London.

Specialist note

Christopher Pratt & Sons of Bradford offered a complete house-furnishing service. In their 1901 catalogue they acknowleged that 'modern furniture design consists very largely in the imitation of old styles'. (J. Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, London, 1987.)